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Hera is a spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency for its space safety program. Its primary mission objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted four years earlier by the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid from a colliding trajectory with Earth.
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 10:52 a.m. ET on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct. 7, 2024, boosting the European Space Agency's Hera probe toward deep space to explore the asteroid Didymos ...
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons will be at ground control for the ESA Hera mission at the European Space Operations Centre in Germany.
Hera probe and its 2 CubeSats, Milani and Juventas. Hera is the European component of the ESA–NASA AIDA mission. The Hera spacecraft, approved on 29 November 2019, [24] will focus on key measurements to validate impact and asteroid deflection models, such as the detailed characterisation of the impact crater made by the DART impactor. [38]
Artists' impression of Giotto, the European Space Agency's first interplanetary mission, launched in July 1985. ARD, launched October 1998 – Demonstration mission to test new technologies in atmospheric entry design. CoRoT, launched December 2006 – CNES-led space telescope mission to search for rocky exoplanets and perform asteroseismology ...
In a collaborating project, the European Space Agency has developed Hera, a spacecraft that was launched to Didymos in October 2024 [34] [49] [50] and planned to arrive in 2026 [51] [52] to do a detailed reconnaissance and assessment. [50] Hera carries two CubeSats, Milani and Juventas. [50]
On Sunday, the FAA said SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket could return to flight for a mission on Monday for the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft from Florida.